On his right move away the hens, the cows, then his farm in the parish of Saint-Tammany.
Sitting in the passenger seat of her car, Katie Darling, nine months pregnant, is transported by her husband to a hospital in Louisiana County, where she lives.
In this campaign video with muted images, shared on her social networks on October 3, the Democratic candidate in the race for Congress invites the viewer to follow her itinerary until childbirth, evoking, implicitly, her fight for the 'abortion.
With her face at first worried, the politician evokes her anxieties in voiceover.
The one who has detected a “risky” pregnancy fears complications, and wonders aloud about the very strict legislation of her county on the right to abortion.
In Louisiana, a woman can only abort if the pregnancy puts her life in danger or if her fetus has no chance of surviving after birth.
No exception is thus made for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest.
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The Roe vs. Wade judgment
“I worry about Louisiana's new abortion ban, one of the strictest and toughest in the country.
We should put pregnant women at ease, not put their lives in danger,” she says in the clip.
The one who is a "pro-choice" Democratic candidate for Congress to represent the first district of her state, has made women's rights and abortion her priority.
With this filmed sequence, she is the standard bearer.
In an interview with The
Washington Post
, she explains that she was seven months pregnant when she decided to become a candidate, in "reaction to the United States Supreme Court's decision in June that ended constitutional protections of abortion,” reports the
Associated
Press
.
In other words, in reaction to the revocation of the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision, which then guaranteed abortion as a constitutional right everywhere in the United States.
Since then, this judgment gives each state the possibility of legislating according to their convictions on abortion.
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“My first reaction was that I had to move somewhere where I would be safe.
Once I calmed down, I started to think about how to regain our reproductive rights and I called the Democratic Party to see how I could support other candidates, ”she explained in a second time
The Cut
.
By dint of commitment, the voter has thus transformed herself into a front-line candidate.
Deciding to fight, as she sees fit, against this law, depriving women of their fundamental freedom to be able to dispose of their bodies.